Following me previous posts, birthday season has to include Mum and I always try to make this card super special.

This is what I did…

Mum loves cross-stitch and often makes me cards using cross-stitch. It’s actually where my crafting started when I was a little girl, but I don’t find the time to do it as often as I used to. So I thought it would be perfect for Mum to take some extra time with this one.

The cross stitch was a free kit on a magazine which I bought probably a year ago, and thought this design would be perfect.

Once I had completed the cross-stitch I decided not to mount it as the kit suggested but to add some paper flowers.

I watercoloured some white card…

I then used a flower die to cut some flowers…

I used the matching stamps to add some detail…

I then shaped each flower and layered up.

I cut some hexagon dies to use as a base for the cross stitch and added the flowers…